Typographical composing and distributing machine.



C. MUEHLEISEN.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSI'NG AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19. 1914.

1,136,551. Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL MUEHLEISEN,

OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2c, 1915.

Application filed June 19, 1914. Serial No. 846,012.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CARL MUEHLEISEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 23 Chausseestrasse, Berlin, N. 4, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Composing and Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to typographical composing and distributing machines such as those known commercially under the trade mark linotype, and particularly to those having a plurality of superposed magazines capable of being raised and lowered for bringing any of them into working position. In this type of machine it has already been suggested (see my Letters Patent No. 1,109,696 dated September 8th, 1914) to provide what is known as an adjustable font distinguisher which serves for preventing matrices of all but one font from being distributed into a given magazine.

Among the special objects of the present invention there may be mentioned the provision of improved means whereby the operation of moving a selected magazine into operative position also automatically effects the adjustment of the font distinguisher, so

that only those matrices shall reach that magazine which belong to the font appropriate thereto, and the construction of those means in such manner that they can be adjusted so as to admit at other times of other fonts of matrices reaching the said magazine.

The accompanying drawings represent a constructional form of the invention, Figure 1 being a side view and Fig. 2 a View of part of the devices shown in Fig. 1 as seen from the left of that figure.

1 is the known shaft, by the turning of which the magazines (not. shown in the drawings) are raised and lowered to bring them in turn into operative position.

2 is a collar fast on the shaft 1 and having adjustable therein a plurality of screwed studs 3, 4 and 5 which by being screwed more or less into the collar 2, can be caused to correspondingly project less or more from the said collar.

The screw threaded stem of each of the studs 3, 4 and 5 is provided with a series of flattened faces'or grooves 6 extending parallel with the axis of that stud, and with each of these faces there is adapted to engage a finger 7 forming a part of one and the same spring 8, which is secured by screws 9 to the said collar 2, the arrangement being such that when any one of the studs 3, 4 or 5 .is turned about its axis for screwing that stud more or less into the collar 2, the finger 7 will yield sufficiently to admit of such turning and will later on serve to hold the stud in its newly adjusted position.

The studs 3, 4 and 5 are adapted to engage with the lower end of a lever 10 pivoted on a fixed rod 11 and operating at its upper end on a spring-controlled pin 12, carrying the font distinguishing finger 13 which, in the ordinary well-known manner, is adapted to be bridged by a recess in the foot of each matrix 14 of the font appertaining to a given magazlne.

The adjustable studs 3, 4 and 5 vary in number in accordance with the number of magazines employed in the machine, each such stud serving to adjust the font distinguisher 13 to the position appropriate to the matrices belonging to that magazine. By screwing the adjustable studs more or less into the collar 2, they can be caused to move the font distinguisher 13 into different positions for enabling diflerent fonts of matrices to be received in a given magazine.

Having described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isf 1. In a typographical composing machine comprlsing matrices of different fonts, the combination with a-rotary shaft and an adjustable font distinguisher, of devices on the shaft operative to effect the adjustment of the font distinguisher to correspond to the matrices of one or another of the fonts, the said devices being adjustable relatively to each other to vary the adjustment of the font distinguisher to correspond to matrices of other fonts.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination of an adjustable font distinguisher, a rotary shaft, and studs projecting radially from the shaft, each of said studs adapted to effect the adjustment of the font distinguisher to correspond to matrices of a given font, and being adjustable at will to vary the adjustment of the font distinguisher to correspond to matrices of a different font.

3. In a typographical composing machine comprising matrices of different fonts, the combination with a rotary shaft and an adjustable font distinguisher, of devices on the shaft operative to effect the adjustment of the font distinguisher to correspond to the matrices of one or another of the fonts,

. the said devices being adjustable relatively to each other to vary the adjustment of the font distinguisher to correspond to matrices of other fonts, and means for locking the said devices in their adjusted position.

4. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a rotary shaft and an adjustable font distinguisher, of screwed studs adjustable to project radially more or less from the shaft, and adapted to effect. the adjustment of the font distinguisher, faces on the screwed stems of those studs and fingers resiliently engaging those faces to prevent accidental rotation of the studs.

5. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a rotary shaft and an adjustable font distinguisher, of screwed studs adjustable to project radially more or less from the shaft, and adapted to effect the adjustment'of the font distinguisher, faces on the screwed stems of those studs, fingers resiliently engaging those faces to prevent" accidental rotation of the studs and a spring unitingall the fingers together.

6. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a rotary shaft and an adjustable font distinguisher, a collar fast on the shaft, screwed studs radially adjustable in the collar, and adapted to effect the adjustment of the font distinguisher, faces on the screwed stems of those studs, fingers tinguisher, the said mechanism comprising a rotary member. rovided with a plurality of radially projeciing devices to control its extentrof action to correspond to matrices of different fonts, the said devices being adjustable at will to vary the extent of action of said mechanism to correspond to matrices.

of otherffonts, for the purpose described.

8. In'a'typographical machine, the combination of an adjustable font distinguisher, and mechanism for adjusting the font. distinguisher. to correspond to matrices of a given fOII t, the said mechanism comprising an operat ng lever connected to the font dis tinguisher, and a rotary member provided with a projecting stud to engage and actuate said lever, the said stud beingl' adjustable at will to vary the extent of movement of the lever so as to adjust the font distinguisher for matrices of a difierent font, for the purpose described.

Inwltness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in'the presence of two witnesses.

CARL MUEHLEISEN. Witnesses:

HenRY Hesrna, Woweman HaUP'r. 

